As you have noticed, such documents are often difficult to read, and any additional information you can provide will help us help you. Do you already know the name of the person involved? The place? The year? It is particularly frustrating that parts of the text and the surrounding lines are blurred out . Why is that?

"Paul Poray from Zwierzyniec about 60 years, accidentally killed by the bad man on a public road, he was confessed at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was buried in the cemetery of our parish."

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"Paul Poray from Zwierzyniec about 60 years, accidentally killed by the bad man on a public road, he was confessed at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was buried in the cemetery of our parish."

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Casu infortuito does not mean "accidentally", but "unfortunately, sadly".

The arendator (convincing reading by fdb # 6 there) would be the landlord.

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In old Poland "arendarz" was the name of a person renting something from the landlord (an inn, a mill, or even a farm). Jews were not landlords, they were tenants. So, independent of the original meaning of the Latin word "arendator" can only be translated as "inn tenant".

In England, we call the manager of a public house the “landlord”, although in most cases he does not own the land or the building, but rents them from a brewery. I assume that our friend Scholiast is using the word in this modern sense. “Tenant” would of course be less ambiguous. I assume that this short entry does in fact imply that the murderer was the tenant of the Taberna.

I have another problem with the exact translating.
"Catherine wife of Francis Przygoda from Kukow about 46 years old, died at home..."
Przygoda - lastname, Kukow, Krzepice - places, Benedict Nowakowski - priest(?).
Is it also something about 'bad air' ?

I have another problem with the exact translating.
"Catherine wife of Francis Przygoda from Kukow about 46 years old, died at home..."
Przygoda - lastname, Kukow, Krzepice - places, Benedict Nowakowski - priest(?).
Is it also something about 'bad air' ?View attachment 12944

I would like to clarify that the spelling of the first names of the people in those church books is Latinized, and is not the same as used by the people themselves. It may be important if one should try to find the same people in other documents, not written in Latin.
Catherine was actually Katarzyna, Francis - Franciszek, Benedict - Benedykt.